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Childhood participation in sports cultural groups and youth

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Childhood participation in sports cultural groups and youth

Childhood participation in sports cultural groups and youth groups appears to be related to improved self esteem for adolescents McGee Williams Howden Chapman Martin Kawachi 2006 In a representative study a sample of n 100 adolescents with a history of group participation is given a standardized self esteem questionnaire For the general population of adolescents scores on this questionnaire form a normal distribution with a mean of u 50 and a standard deviation of o 15 The sample of group participation adolescents had an average of M 53 8 a Does this sample provide enough evidence to conclude that self esteem scores for these adolescents are significantly different from those of the general population Use a two tailed test with a 05 Show all four steps part of the steps have already been given fill in the blanks or make your own changes 50 H Step 1 Ho u Step 2 a Step 3 Participation Participation p Z Step 4 Reject Accept the null hypothesis 50 b Compute Cohen s d to measure the size of the difference Is the effect size small medium or big according to the range mentioned in the lecture Cohen 1988 Show your work